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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






2. The enterprise whose personnel are directly involved in doing the work of the project






3. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






4. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






5. A product - result or service generated by a process






6. A point that is not settled or is under discussion or over which there are opposing views or disagreements






7. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






8. Requirements imposed by a government body. government mandated compliance






9. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






10. Multiple attributes associated with each schedule activity that can be included within the activity list. activity attributes include activity codes - predecessor activities - successor activities - logical relationships - leads and lags - resource r






11. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary






12. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






13. Examining or measuring to verify whether an activity - component - product - result of service conforms to specified requirements.






14. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






15. Sum of products - services and results to be provided as a project






16. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






17. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






18. Logical relationship where initiation of work of the successor activity depends on the completion of work of the predecessor activity






19. Technique that computes or iterates the project cost or project schedule many times using input values selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or durations - to calculate a distribution of total project costs or completion






20. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






21. A point in time associated with schedule activity's completion.






22. Point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. called planned start date.






23. Logical relationship where initiation of the work of the successor schedule activity depends upon the initiation of the work of the predecessor schedule activity






24. Structure that relates the project organizational breakdown structure to the work breakdown structure to help ensure that each component of the project scope of work is assigned to a person or team






25. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






26. Defined systematic procedure employed by a human resource to perform an activity to produce a product or result or deliver a service that may employ one or more tools






27. Budgeted cost of work performed






28. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






29. Schedule activity that has a low total float.






30. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases






31. Graphic display of schedule related information.






32. Summary level project schedule that identifies the major deliverables and work breakdown structure components and key schedule milestones






33. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






34. A quantitative assessment of the likely amount or outcome. usually applied to project costs - resources - effort and durations.






35. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






36. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






37. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






38. Learning gained from the process of performing the project






39. The process of completing each project procurement






40. Members of the project team who are directly involved in project management activities






41. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






42. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






43. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






44. Collection of schedule activity dependencies that makes up a project schedule network diagram






45. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






46. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






47. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






48. Source of variation that is not inherent in the system - is not predictable - and it intermittent. also referred to as assignable cause.






49. The amount of funds - budget - or time needed above the estimate to reduce the risk of overruns of project objectives to a level acceptance to the organization






50. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results